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Example 21-71
The patient eat food already.
The
det
patient
patient
eat
eat
food
food
already.
prf
The patient has started to eat food.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Bao 1995
: 183
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning: Inchoative expressed by completive marker
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